Okay I have spent about 5 hours going through archives but not found anything that addresses my scenario.
In a nutshell I wish to be able to manage the membership of a list via emails sent by a PHP script, emails to a list admin which would probably include admin password to authorise the action to automate administration. Background. The lists are to be closed ones that are distribution lists for various societies/organisations. Have previously done this with ColdFusion/Lyris, where the Coldfusion scripts send an email containing a password and "subscribe listname [EMAIL PROTECTED] joe bloggs [quiet]" to a lyris list admin address that automatically adds that address to the relevant list. Similarly a passworded message containing "unsubscribe listname [EMAIL PROTECTED] [quiet]" would remove that address. The intention is to update details on the list as users update their details on a database conatining information in addition to their email address. This means users have a single point of maintaining their details while the owners of these lists gain the advantage of suing the efficiecny of using a mail list for mass emailing, rather than doing PHP mail which can put a bit of a strain on the server when sending tens of thousands of emails. Is such a thing possible with Mailman? I have done a few experiments sending emails with "subscribe" to a small closed list I manage but it hits the "posting by a non-member" issue. Obviously I could send it with the listmanager email address but then it would try to subscribe the listmanager - which is already subscribed... Ideally I am hoping to be flamed with "... it's all here [link] in black and white if you bother to look for it". This will be on a hosted server to which I will not have shell access. Regards Leigh ========== convolution - because you're worth it! ========== ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/
